Posts by UgotmyIU
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Cumulated sales along with singles and digitals. Sales don't equal albums.
Look at this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…_best-selling_girl_groups. Almost all the sales on that list are not actual albums sold.
SNSD apparently has 34.4 million sales but if I go with the source https://web.archive.org/web/20…eration-psy-gangnam-k-pop then it's over 30m in digital singles and 4.4m albums.
AKB48 has 60m sales, but on oricon it says that 53.4m are singles and 6.6m are albums. https://www.oricon.co.jp/confidence/special/52827/2/#link1
Alright, so let's say they combined everything into one pot, and let's say I trust their stats of 18.9 million singles and 3.4 million albums in the UK. That's still only 22.3M.
That means they sold 28M others outside of the UK, which is again crazy.
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well uhh some article i found did say "estimated 50 million albums" so
The key word would be 'estimated' as in its a round up guess and album sales are continuous (as in people still are buying them) so some are still being counted. (this goes for all artists in general) Outside sales are unstated so that will factor into the estimate.
Language is key it didn't say officially sold.
Also for a album to be certified as platinum. You have to sell atleast 1 million copies, so I think they have a few platinum certifications there but I don't know really, this includes streams now I think. But there isn't much verification on what type of sales in The charts you put up..if its physical sales then the chart makes sense, no one really buys physicals here much.
Also remember anyone can edit wiki it's not the most trusted source.
Yeah, but it's ridiculous to estimate 50M starting from a base of at most 10M (and that's extremely generous, as I'm 99% sure they haven't sold ~7.8M outside of the UK).
While wikipedia is unreliable, there's also no articles on Google showing any sort of statistics or proof that they've even sold more than 5M or 10M.
Like I can't find one single source for it.
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